Originally posted by northernladuk
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Aviva Contractor Shake-Up - All Out Within 60 Days + Rate Cut of 10%
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Originally posted by LatteLiberal View PostSo next time you go to McDonalds and they have added 10p onto their Big Macs do you expect the counter staff to give a business case and justify the rise?
Get a coffee, take 10 mins and get back in to General. They are missing you.'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!Comment
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Originally posted by northernladuk View Postget back in to General. They are missing you.
As for the case in hand a non negotiable 10% cut only works if people have nowhere else to go. In 2008 that was the case but is that really the case in the current market?merely at clientco for the entertainmentComment
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Having had a couple of cuts in my rates in the last 5 years, my view on this is
100%-cut% > 100% of nothing
Take the cut and start lookin for a replacement at an acceptable rate.Never has a man been heard to say on his death bed that he wishes he'd spent more time in the office.Comment
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Originally posted by Scrag Meister View Post100%-cut% > 100% of nothing
Take the cut and start lookin for a replacement at an acceptable rate.Free advice and opinions - refunds are available if you are not 100% satisfied.Comment
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Originally posted by Wanderer View PostTrue enough, so long as you actually do get angry enough to ditch the contract and get a new one rather than just staying in the job like a boiled frog...
A lot of clients want it all their own way and will expect rate cut and give nothing in return...Rhyddid i lofnod psychocandy!!!!Comment
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Originally posted by psychocandy View Post
A lot of clients want it all their own way and will expect rate cut and give nothing in return...
While their accountants think it's a good idea to cut staffing rates, when the actual client managers spend 6 weeks interviewing your replacement then have to walk that contractor of site and the project is delivered later, they will have learnt a lesson."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by LatteLiberal View PostWhile I agree with a lot of your comments, I think any contractor is entitled to be annoyed if his rate is cut from the agreed one. I wonder why the clients just don't wait till renewals and then offer the revised rate, how much are they actually saving by forcing this on contractors. It would make me wary of working for them again as it would many excellent professionals.Comment
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Email from Hyphen and response
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Dear Contractor
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Re: Solutions Delivery (SDRR) - 10% Rate Reduction
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As you are aware, Aviva have recently undergone a global transformation project, Simplify. The key objective of this project was to release efficiencies, realise greater optimisation across our business and deliver significant cost savings. *In harmony with this objective and underpinned by volatile market factors we have been instructed by Aviva that a rate cut will be applied to your current rate.
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The rate cut will be a 10% reduction in your current day rate and any overtime payments that are driven from your base rate. Changes to pay rates will be effective from 1 January 2013.
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Please take this email as notification that your official notice period of your current contractual terms will commence on*17 December 2012
*and therefore your current contractual terms will terminate on*31 December 2012
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Please confirm acceptance of the above terms by typing Accept/Reject in the email Subject header, by no later than17:00*
on Friday 14*December 2012.* You will then receive an amended contract letter via the contractor portal, confirming your revised rate.
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It is essential that you accept the amendments within 24 hours of receipt via the contractor portal, in order to ensure continued payment.
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Acceptance of the above shall be deemed as formal acceptance of the variation under the terms of the Assignment. Should we not hear from you by this date, then your contract shall terminate on 31st*December 2012.
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Should you wish to speak to a member of the hyphen recruitment team, please reply to this email with the best number to contact you on?
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This adjustment is not a reflection of the quality or value of your contribution to the business, but a part of Aviva’s wider response and focus on cost management and current market events
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Regards
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hyphen recruitment outsourcing
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And my response:
<mod snaip: I've removed this snacket as you would be easily identified if anyone in Hyphen read this.
Feel free to re-post if you don't care>
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I heard it is just solutions delivery contractors in the first round of cuts.Comment
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Originally posted by Flubster View PostA nil response will result in contracts being terminated from 31/12/2012. My 'No' response was sent within 30secs of my receiving the email.Politicians are wonderfull people, as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, like working for a living!Comment
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